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The rules about safety are not rules. there's no proouable data to va a head scarf has injured an opponent. what happened with andrew johnson, dread locks have never been on file to hurt anybody in a wrestling match. the olympic american wrestler corroborated that. he's never seen that in 25 years of wrestling, seen this have to happen. it was terrible. >> thank you for sharing your views with us. time for monumental americans. he was a defender of civil rights. nicknamed the silver tongued orator because of his bilingual speeches. he came to the united states to attend law school. he became a...

I'm sure he has a question for you. >> yeah, secretary shulkin, good to see you. can you tell us what it is about the va and its bureaucracy that it's so difficult to get your arms around? people look at this and say, this should be easy. these are people who volunteered to go fight wars as the rest of us sat here in comfort. these men and women ought to be taken care of. why is it so hard to get the care to the people who need it? >> i think it's a great question. first of all, we are committed to making the va a place all of us are proud of, that does its mission to serve veterans, but this ...

How often is it hard to get a candidate to stop talking. >> it is like that old saturday live skit when dana carter was playing george bush 41 and they would say you have more time, wouldn't be prudent, no new taxes. trump was up there build a wall, make america great. >> bill: our bell is up now. thank you, mark. come back, mark. thank you. >> martha: problems are still plaguing the va a year after reports surphafaced of extended waits to get help and some reports show some veterans died before they got health care at all. we look at where the department stands today. doug mccallway is living...

We have reduced the number of homeless veterans by about a third. we're helping more veterans and military spouses find good civilian jobs. and the veterans unemployment rate continues to go down. it's lower than the national average and that's all good news. problems arise, we work to fix them. here in pittsburgh an outrage of disease at the va a few years ago killed six veterans. that was a strategytragedy. whenever there are missteps there is no excuse. our hearts go out to the families of those who lost loved ones and know that there is new leadership now at the pittsburgh va. safety measu...